Beginning Practícal Spanish (Plus Shipibo & Quechua) for 🌿 Herbalists and Birthworkers: HYBRID Online 30 HR CT

A 30-hour introductory Spanish language course for Herbalists and Birthworkers. With bonus phrases and language learning materials in Shipibo and Quechua.

   With the current geopolitical situations unfolding throughout across Nations, it certainly is a poignant time to grow the number of practitioners who are able to serve more of their local communities in a good way. The benefits of learning new languages for your practice are mutual. Not only does your overall neuroplasticity benefit, but also your practice can be supported financially through grant funding, insurance provider qualification, private client opportunities, and  programs which only apply to you if you maintain at least a basic functioning level of applicable Spanish. 

    While this course is built to teach a basic level of proficient Spanish speaking as it applies to Herbalism and Birth work, we know that Spanish too is a Latin language which has long been used as a tool to colonize throughout the continents. Knowing basic Español can certainly extend our tool set as Herbalists and Birthworkers, and still it is still limited. It has been said that every time an indigenous language disappears from Human consciousness, the concepts, and sometimes even Creatures, which it names cease to exist as well. When applied to Herbalism and Birth, it becomes evident that entire ways of relating with Plant Nations, Earth, and Humanity are not named (and therefore are not spoken or sung into reality) within any Latin language, but remain alive and well within the ecology of indigenous tongues that were grown before humans ever had the idea that we are separate from, and have dominion over, Earth.

  For our current purposes we recognize the essential role Latin plays in both clinical Herbalism and  health care facilities - in fact, we hypothesize that Latin being the way we have agreed across Nations to organize and name our health practices greatly affects the incomplete nature of modern allopathic medicine. Language organizes how our minds perceive reality. When indigenous languages are lost or become forgotten, entire ways of relating with Plant Nations, Humanity, and earth and all of her creatures are also forgotten. In the same way that so many of us are of mixed ancestry, local Spanish speakers frequently blend the Latin language with words, phrases, and expressions from their ancestral languages indigenous to the "Americas", preserving ways of healing and relating.

  It is essential that we actively move towards relating with, and restoring our indigenous languages. In Perú we have the absolute pride of having 48 living indigenous languages, and we are blessed to have members from 2 of those Nations join us as guest instructors in this course! Karen Tinta Chumvislla of Quechua Nation and Kety Melissa Yuimachi of Shipibo-Konibo Nation have provided us with key words and phrases in Quechua (Runa Simi) and Shipibo as they apply to Herbalism and Birth. Each time a new student invests in our beginning Spanish language course you are directly supporting these beautiful, resilient indigenous women. 

  Your Beginning Practical Spanish for Herbalists and Birthworkers has been laid out in the following parts:

Part 1:  Primer Pasos - First Steps

Part 2: Communication Basics - Relating with others

Part 3: Active Listening - Understanding Others

Part 4: Expressing Yourself to Others / Storytelling

Part 5: Basics of Herbal Medicine Making

Part 6: Basic Medical Spanish

Part 7: Basics of Perinatal/ Postpartum Care

Part 8: Trauma-informed Client Care

Part 9: Introducing Plant Nations - Visual Plant ID in Spanish

Part 10: Learning with Laughter - Spanish Learning Games

Part 11: Routes and Recipes - Traditional Indigenous Recipes in Spanish

Part 12: Bonus Lesson in Quechua (Runa Simi) Language

Part 13: Bonus Lesson in Shipibo Language

   We are so passionate about providing this introductory course as an accessible way to begin your journey as a Spanish speaking Herbalist and/ or Birth worker. Your language curriculum has been designed with the purpose of providing you with a functioning basic level of Spanish as applied to key words, phrases, and necessary communications that come with studying and/ or practicing Herbalism and Birth work.  

Your Course Ebooks 

  Your introductory language course comes with several different course ebooks, which include: 

• Vocabulary key Words and Phrases in Spanish, a Printable Study Guide 

• Learning Spanish with Laughter - Printable Language Learning Games

• Visual ID, Plantas - Beginning Practical Spanish for Herbalists and Birth works 

• Rutas y Recetas, Traditional Recipes with Plant Nations 

• Vocabulario - Runa Simi (Quechua) to Spanish with Karen Tinta-Chumvislla of Quechua Nation (Cuzco, Peru)
• Vocabulario, Shipibo to Spanish with Kety Yuimachi (Ucayalí, Perú)

  All of your vocabulary words and phrases for this course can be found in your course book (included below) titled Key Words and Phrases in Spanish - Beginning Practical Spanish for Herbalists and Birthworkers. Your printable vocabulary study guides of words and phrases included therein are typed out in the same chronological order as they are spoken in the video tutorials. Your video pronunciation tutorials are shown in their respective section of your course book, along with the printable study guides to which they match. Likewise, each video tutorial has been clearly labeled with the page number(s) from your above mentioned course book it is covering.

 Your interactive quizzes are distributed throughout the respective parts of your language course to which they pertain. Your final test will be provided once you have successfully completed all prior 15 quizzes. The quizzes and test that accompany this course have been built as learning tools that you are encouraged to take as many times as you would like, or until you have fully grasped the course material which they cover. They are in no way meant to add stress into your life. If this style of learning is not conducive for your purposes, please feel free to reach out to us directly for other learning accommodations.  

This hybrid online course includes: 

• Pre-recorded lessons on Spanish phrases for birth and holistic care with Plant Nations. Each recording is 60 minutes long

• 2 live conversation exercises, 30 minutes each

• 15 (printable) work book style practicums for integration, memorization, and practical application

• Printable e-booklet of key phrases in Spanish (plus bonus Shipibo and Quechua) for Herbalists and Birthworkers 

• Printable course ebooks of Plant 🌿 visual IDs with Spanish names 

• End of course evaluation, and support through acing it.

Your instructors for this course:

• Amaru Astudillo (Spanish)

• Karen Tinta-Chumvislla (Quechua phrases)

• Kety Melissa Yuimachi (Shipibo phrases)

• Brittany J Wilson (Spanish interpretation into English, practicum PDFs, and curriculum)